Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It is 1939 and the Second World Warhas just begun. Robin a youngIndian Civil Servant and his wifeare sent to Rangoon Burma andlater to Mandalay. Soon the warcatches them in Burma and thetwenty-one year old bride nowpregnant must flee alone to India togive birth to her child. She lands inNew Delhi and eventually her babyis safely born at a clinic on thefoothills of the Himalayas.This is not a war diary but a verypersonal account of a young womanliving in India and Burma in a timeof stress and deprivation. It is anilluminating detailed fascinatingdescription of the locale and life ofthose regions. It is also a verytouching description of the personalexperiences of an Englishwomanliving in those lands during the firstthree years of the Second World War.